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Author Stein, Joel, 1971- author.

Title In defense of elitism : why I'm better than you and you're better than someone who didn't buy this book / Joel Stein.

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  818.602 STEIN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  818.602 STEIN    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  818.602 STE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  818.602 STE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  818.602 STEIN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  818.602 STE    Missing
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  818.602 STEIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxiv, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Contents The populists. Flippin' whippy ; Baptist row ; Underthinking ; I was sent here by God ; The table of knowledge ; Canadian key parties ; An unclean spirit ; The 33 party -- The elites. Resistance dinner parties ; The loop ; Puppet pig -- The populist elites. Dilbert ; Care actors ; A meme guy ; Littering on the death star ; Son of Fidel Castro ; The boat elite ; Tucker -- The elite populists. The time travel mart -- Saving the elite. The meeting of the concerned ; I said, "good day, sir!" ; The love dare.
Summary Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists.
Subject Conduct of life -- Humor.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Humor.
Humorous stories, American.
Stein, Joel -- Travel -- Texas.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Texas -- Social life and customs.
Culture conflict -- United States.
Populism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
HUMOR / General.
Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst00874563
Elite (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst00908113
Genre/Form Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
Humor.
ISBN 9781455591473 (hardcover)
1455591475 (hardcover)
9781478905967 (audio download)
9781455591466 (ebook)
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